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I have £70 worth of Argos vouchers from an unwanted birthday present. Keen to get something close to what they're worth without standing outside Argos like a Big Issue seller. If you're looking to buy something at Argos, let me know and hopefully come to some mutually agreeable arrangement.

spectating...

TNRC 11th May 2010 Kent 1 Exedown
[ame]http://www.bikemap.net/route/314662[/ame]
Trains: 19:28 / 19:37 London Victoria
Last trains back from St Mary Cray: 2314 / 2348 / 0014

TRAIN

1. clintsmoker
   
2. marcom (hope to find a mum or an auntie at every junction)
   
3. mashton
   
4. Tom-saracen
   
5. Sean
   
6. Des
   
7. BMMF (Geared, Train 2)
   
8. tika
   
9. braker
   
10. gav
    
11. pinky
    
12. tex
    
13. Calleva
    
14. Gustav
    
    

RIDE OUT/IN

1. Sam (65" - yes I actually have one)
   
2. Tiswas (35" - 120")
   
3. wvm (Probably arriving in white van)
   
4. 6pt
   
5. tex
   
6. jb
   

Started out on it but turned back eventually due to me having summer clothes on. Lovely bunch and have now signed up the club

Travelled to Paris last w/end and had no problems with bike being taken through or dimensions measured

Have a fabulous birthday...look forward to catching you out on the tarmac soon

Just back from trip to Paris...presume I'm preaching to the converted, but it's well worth taking your bike as the city is great for getting around in with its mixture of cycle paths and roads. Some of the squares can be a little interesting (Arc de Triomphe in particular) and the pave is hard going at times but you can see so much more when you stay above ground.

Look out for the cops though, they're seemingly everywhere and look a lot more scarey than the British police. The Parisians definitely seem to be a lot more law abiding as far as stopping at red lights than Londoners. Fixed and SSers are beginning to pop up all over the place. Checked out Cyclope and l'Atelier de Velos but it was the latter that tickled my fancy - really friendly staff.

Food is great and doesn't need to cost the earth if you do the baguette et fromage routine and there's an endless list of things to check out.

Definitely suggest a folding bag rather than a hard case...was in Paris last w/end and managed to ride to and from station. Large case like the above pictured would have problems fitting in the luggage area. Unfortunately the bag I used was not mine so can't really offer at this stage.

Paris was lovely - you'll have a treat...

what i'm looking for is the bolts as seen at the ends of this hub...

I had a set of allen key bolts with nuts that provide more surface area. I've just got bike back from respray but can't find bolts now...

Looking for the above named...let me know if you have any (or equivalents) that you'd be willing to part with for cash...

Hope all goes well, have Mum in town so a dose of babysitting for me...

2010-18-04 Surrey Hills (redux)
9.30 am Waterloo Station
1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 repeat until:
a) you fail to reach the top
b) you reach the top

this will help.

Following on from the continued success of our borrowing this route and my continued inability to climb 2 of the hills on the route without pussing out, the decision to repeat on 65" was made on the train back from Effingham yesterday.

As always this is about 30 miles of hilly riding with several fast descents, we're looking at 4 or 5 climbs. By my non expert standards they're all judged at above "ouchy". One is judged as "fucking hurty". It's a maximum of 3 hours riding. The first ride was 6 climbs and took about 3 hours. Yesterday's ride was 4 climbs and 2 and a bit hours. So somewhere between 2 and 3 hours of decent paced riding.

Things to know:
It takes about an hour to get there on the train from Waterloo.
We will regroup at junctions and no one will be abandoned.
It's a nice paced, sociable ride in the countryside on some hills, with a stop at the end before we get the train home for a pint / cup of tea.

weather check the night before.
NOTE: EARLIER START SO WE CAN CATCH THE 10am TRAIN.

so then, who's in?

1. damo
   
2. marcom
   
3. pascalo
   
4. jaygee - might bang my 47 on to lose a couple of inches.
   
5. middleofnowhere
   
6. wools
   
7. henry
   
8. Matt
   
9. braker
   
10. Gustav
    
    

All the above^ is very right; plus:

Climbing is the main goal of this ride... but don't forget that this beautiful route has also flat, rolling and downhill..which deserves same effort as well as the climbing.

The training will finish at the pub!

1. teenslain
   
2. Dov-a-tron
   
3. andyp
   
4. JAMIE
   
5. hoops
   
6. 50/14
   
7. aleksi
   
8. furious tiles
   
9. joe smiff
   
10. cake
    
11. costarensho
    
12. wools
    
13. murtz
    
14. Brave
    
15. Mrs Brave
    
16. ClittyGent
    
17. adoubletap
    
18. Gustav
    

Keen to avoid forking out for a second bike bag and figure it might be time to get some karma bike after lending mine out to forumites a couple of times...

I am travelling by Eurostar on Thursday next week and I'm keen to borrow a bike bag that can fold up and be carried somehow in my oversized courier bag (cycle to and from the station at either end). I've actually got a proper bike bag but it's too large, certainly not foldable and is being borrowed by a friend for a few weeks whilst she goes back to Oz. Any help more than gratefully received

Happy birthday big boy...hope you're celebrating in style

review of Google Bikes from Wired

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/04/readers-give-google-bike-maps-a-for-effort-b-for-execution/

Need someone with design skills - would be good to get some posters, spoke cards and t-shirts (different colours for different teams)

Need also to find out what key dates there are in the calendar to avoid double booking - particularly interested in input from polo, track and messenger crews for this.

Am figuring on doing it in a weekend and if we run a tight ship, we shouldn't need a bank holiday. Something like this:

Friday night: Alley Cat
Saturday midday: Laps Richmond Park
Saturday night: Track Stand Competition, Drag Sprints then Booze and Ride Event
Sunday afternoon: Polo Tournament
Sunday evening: Roller Racing

Equal scoring for each discipline. Figure you might need to do some polo inductions to make sure everyone could at least hold a mallet, if not get it through the goal

Proposed teams

Trixie Dix/Chix
Polo
Trackies
Messengers
Roadies
North
Souths
Wests
Easts

Possible events (feel free to provide more input):

Track Stand Competition (or something of the sort)
Polo (would be keen to hear from those familiar with polo how quickly we could run a micro tournament with 5-9 teams)
Herne Hill Race (may need to substitute laps of Richmond Park given the difficulty of getting everyone inducted)
Alley Cat
Roller Racing (need word from Winston and Caspar as to whether they'd be interested
Drag sprints
Drinking and ride event (might be an area for Nhatt to provide some input given that she ran a boozeathon a while ago

Still liking the idea of three membered teams although figure it would be a good plan to have one female in all teams

Easyjet employs said monkeys so I would LNG differentiate between the two...

It's been interesting seeing the fixed gear scene developing over the last few years. It's obviously got a whole lot bigger but also slightly more fragmented as people follow their chosen passions, be it time on the track, pulling tricks, polo, alley cats or simply time at the pub. Obviously you see a few faces at more than one but you also get a lot of people sticking to their chosen tribe.

I've seen these tribes develop and I figured it might fun plan to get these different tribes competing with each other over various disciplines in a 'clash of the codes' with representatives from each of the relevant tribes. Tribes would be represented by three riders who would then have to compete across all events which would hopefully make for some comic performances. Hopefully you'd see a bit of friendly rivalry but also bring people together that might not have seen each other in a while

Proposed teams

Trixie Dix/Chix
Polo
Trackies
Messengers

Proposed events

Track Stand Competition (or something of the sort)
Polo
Herne Hill Race
Alley Cat
Roller Racing/drag sprints

This is just an idea at this stage but definitely keen to hear from other people as to whether they'd think it would fly. Might require a bank holiday w/end to run all these events although something similar has been done in the past with the London Calling events (which I'd definitely give credit for for some inspiration). Also, as with most events, wouldn't be much fun without spectators.

Thoughts?

" Men's Finals

Magnet
Brucie 15.69 "

Gustav what is my time in the final? (remember crossing the finish line first :{)

apologise, presume i've misinterpreted results sheet. Your time would be the one above. Have readjusted results accordingly

I'm looking at touring from Munich to Zurich but don't know how feasible this is. Beginning to do some research but keen to know if anyone has experience with the area or knows how feasible it is